Portrait of a Young Woman Sitting in an Armchair with Yellow Shawl
Artist: Abraham Archibald Anderson
Oil on Canvas. Signed in lower right.
Size: 30" by 36"
Oil Painting comes in gilt molded wooden frame 37" by 43" from early 20th century.
Provenance: Estate Sale of Judith Chalmers, Summit, NJ, who was related to the Artist.
Condition: Painting is professionally cleaned, freshly re-patched, inpainted and retouched with reversible restoration colors, applied final coats of non-yellowing, UV-inhibiting synthetic resin varnishes.
Frame sold in "as is" condition (please, see the photos). The painting sits loosely in the frame. Most likely it's not the original frame to this painting.
Abraham Archibald Anderson (1847 - 1940) listed artist
Lived/Active: New York/Wyoming/New Jersey
Known for: portrait-figure, landscape and floral painting
An
artist whose multi-faceted activities included national park
administration, city politics and aviation, Abraham Anderson was
primarily based in New York City where he earned a reputation primarily
for his portrait painting. He exhibited at the National Academy of
Design beginning 1873. As part ot his art training, he spent much time
between 1873 and 1883 in Paris where he was a student of Leon Bonnat,
Raphael Collin, Fernand Cormon and Auguste Rodin.Also during the
1870s, he made his first trip to Wyoming, which led to him returning to
a ranch he purchased there for every summer for the rest of his life
and to his being appointed in 1902 by President Theodore Roosevelt as
forest superintendent for seven years. From this job, he earned the
title of "Colonel". In New York, Anderson owned four lots on
Fortieth Street and 6th Avenue, facing Bryant Park. He erected a Beaux
Arts Studio Building and became involved in city politics, which
included chairing a committee on city traffic management that led to the
"introduction of mounted police and stop-and-go lights."(16) In
Richmond, Virginia, he established a studio and gallery, and led the
establishing of the city's national air terminal by acquiring the
original site to build runways and administration buildings. Anderson
was the son of an engineer who became a minister, and lived with his
family on the Illinois frontier in the 1860s and then settled on Long
Island.
Source:
David Dearinger, Editor, Painting and Sculpture in the Collection of The National Academy of Design, p. 16